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2006 Flood Victims Still Looking for Answers

2006 Flood Victims Still Looking for Answers - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 3:20PM EST

Reported by: David DeCosmo
Tuesday, Jul 8, 2008 @ 03:20pm EST
LOVELTON, WYOMING COUNTY- A victim of the June, 2006 flooding in Northeastern Pennsylvania says he lost his FEMA provided mobile home after his wife died and he was recuperating from a heart attack.

Don Goble says he was glad to hear that FEMA had provided another extension for flood victims still living in the trailers. But he's wondering what he will do. Goble suffered a heart attack after his wife passed away last year and was unable to drive for a while.

Goble says a FEMA representative told him he couldn't keep the trailer because no one was living there. He had to move all his possessions in April and is currently living with a daughter 4 days a week and with a son the other 3. Since he is driving again he wonders why he couldn't be in a FEMA unit until the new deadline on January 13, of 2009.

According to FEMA there are 13 families still living in mobile homes or campers since the flooding in June of 2006.